Lot 3487. A fine Langyao red-glazed vase, guanyin zun, Kangxi period (1662-1722); 17 3/4 in. (45 cm.) high. Estimate HKD 400,000 - HKD 500,000. Price Realized HKD 1,240,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2013

The slender waisted body has high-shoulders and stands on a stepped foot rim, below a slightly waisted cylindrical neck with gentle flared rim. It is covered with a crackle-suffused glaze of intense crushed strawberry tone thinning to pale beige-celadon towards the rim. The base is covered in a similar, pale celadon crackled glaze, Japanese wood box.

Christie's. Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art (Including The Su Zhu An Collection of Inkstones), Hong Kong, 27 November 2013